Org Comm WHAT IS COMMUNICATION

Keith Davis

. For him, "communication is a process of passing information and understanding from one another

Dance

According to him, "Human communication is indeed a dappled thing, swift, slow, sweet, sour, adazzle, dim. The search for its essence and the study of its meaning is a search rich in the doing, not in the done,"

Allen Louis

According to him, "communication is the sum of all the things one person does, when he wants to create understanding in the mind of another"

Leland Brown

According to him, "communication is the transmission and interchange of facts, ideas, feelings or course of action"

Katz and Kahn

According to them "communication is the exchange of information and the transmission of meaning.

Newman and Summer

According to them, "communication is an exchange of facts, ideas, opinions or emotions by two or more persons"

M.T Myers and G.E Myers

According to them, "communication refers to a special kind of patterning: a patterning which is expressed in symbolic form

Glare

According to this person, In classical Latin, communicare meant "to share with," "to share out," "to make generally accessible" or "to discuss together"

Process, Source, Channel, Receiver

Basic Model of Communication

Process

Communication is a ______ which means it is ongoing and always in motion and there are no distinct beginnings to communication nor ends

Shannon and Weaver

Communication is a process of dissemination, a flow of information in which a sender disseminates a message to receivers by revealing its meaning within this message

Chester Barnard

He believes that "in the exhaustive theory of organization, communication would occupy a central place because the structure, extensiveness and scope of organizations are almost entirely determined by communication techniques."

Channel

It is "the means by which a message is carried from one person to another" (Richmond et. al., 2008)

Receiver

It is ultimately the person interpreting and understanding a source's message

Message

The "idea" someone is trying to send to a receiver is the ________

Source

The _________is the individual or group of individuals attempts to create and interprets meaning.

Individual vs. Group

The source of a message could represent a single person's ideas or an entire group's ideas.

Rosengren

This person suggests that, above all, communication concerns the process of meaning creation

Verbal, Nonverbal, Mediated

Three distinct types of Channel

Individual/Group and Message

Two major components in defining the role of the source

Littlejohn

Who said "communication does not happen without meaning, and people create and use meaning in interpreting events"?

Nonverbal

channel of communication which is known as using wordless messages to generate meaning or does not use word symbols but rather signs, gestures, body language etc.

Ordway Tead

defined communication as a composite information given and received out of a learning experience.

Verbal

is the Latin adjective of "word" which means communicating with word symbols. A communication channel that takes place by means of language or words

Mediated

means any message that is sent using some kind of technology such as print-form, auditory, visual, and electronic

Wrench et. al

they defined human communication as the process whereby one individual (or group of individuals) attempts to stimulate meaning in the mind of another individual (or group of individuals)